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Many community driven websites are out there for you to get noticed.

Want to make friends? Want to meet people?

Well you can, and its just a matter of signing up, uploading a couple of pictures, and your off and running. My first experience with a community driven web environment was a loooong time ago with AOL chat and instant messenger. But if you look at todays form of web based communities, My first experience was with a little site called Black Planet. Now BlackPlanet.com, if you ever been there, will remind you a lot of another pretty well known website by the name of Myspace, and the more recently popular Facebook. The main purpose of those sites are to make connections. Myspace started as a tool to promote music and Facebook was originally only available to colleges but they have became hugely popular, and people tend to use those sites to meet people, make plans, and just network on a more light hearted friendly basis.

More serious communities that would still fall under those same categories, but have a more "professional" focus, are Linkedin and Mybloglogs. Both of these community driven websites are geared towards a kind of different crowd and are also hugely popular.

Meeting people isn’t the only reason to join these community based websites. There are a few sites out there that have a different purpose all together. these sites have the whole meeting and networking functionality included to help support the site but as not the main focus. Digg.com is one of those sites. At Digg, the main focus is to find out information and news. Its a good site to keep caught up on whats going on. The community aspect kicks in by way of a voting system, where Digg users will vote up and down news articles. Also, each user at Digg has their very own profile for others to view, and you can also create your own community by adding people as friends, and checking out what is popular among your friends. There are other sites that sortif fit into that same class of community driven website’s such as Reddit, Stumbleupon and Del.icio.us.

Many of these you probably have heard of and used, but if you haven’t, you may want to give them a look.

 

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